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IGB International School Community Conference is grateful for the international professional learning community educators who have generously offered their time and expertise to contribute to our NANO PD sessions.
IGB International School Community Conference is grateful for the international professional learning community educators who have generously offered their time and expertise to contribute to our NANO PD sessions.
Chandrani Banerjee
Chandrani Banerjee
Ms Chandrani Banerjee has been associated with Mount Litera School International since 2018. She is a certified PYP facilitator and mentor. She started her journey in 1997, out of those years, she has 16 years of experience in teaching in the National curriculum, CIPP and 9 years of experience with the IB curriculum.
She has coordinated the EYFS Program and The British Council International School Award (ISA). Currently she is working as a PYP Coordinator for Mount Litera School International in Mumbai, India.
HarbinDER Kaur CHaUHAN
HarbinDER Kaur CHaUHAN
Harbinder Kaur Chauhan is a PYP homeroom teacher and CIS evaluator member.
She has been teaching for the past 10 years within the IB framework across schools in India. She graduated with an ECCE background and is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Education. She has a flair for maths and explores mathematical concepts through the lens of inquiry. She enjoys spending time with her son and catching up with friends.
Aga Chojnacka - Al Atat
Aga Chojnacka - Al Atat
Aga Chojnacka-Al Atat is a leader of learning, maker, play advocate, and SDGs goalkeeper. She holds a B.A in Teaching English to Young Learners and a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics - Teaching and Translation. In her life and work, Aga is driven by values of courage and kindness.
Throughout her professional life, she has worked across Europe and Asia as a PYP teacher (20 years), curriculum director and coordinator (14 years), professional learning coach, maker space facilitator, IB workshop leader, and consultant (9 years).
Aga's professional expertise and inquiry focus on building culturally responsive communities, lifelong learning, agency by design, play as a way of knowing and the environment as the 3rd teacher.
She is a mom to two amazing TCKs (Nina 14 and Zoja 10) and her family is currently based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where they are a part of the IGB International School community of learners.
ADika Crement
ADika Crement
Adika is an international educator currently based in Shanghai, China. Adika has been teaching and holding various leadership roles in international schools in Scandinavia, New Zealand, and Asia. This is her 18th year of teaching and she has taught many curricula including the IBPYP, NZ Te Whāriki, IPC, EYFS, US Common Core, and more. As a Third Culture Kid, Adika is passionate about global citizenship and advocating for children's rights, diversity, and inclusion. Always a life-long learner, Adika is seeking to grow and develop continuously so that she can become a positive contributor to the communities around her.
Ricardo Dominguez Gamez
Ricardo Dominguez Gamez
Ricardo is a teacher, PYPC and musician. He considers himself a lifelong learner and natural-born inquirer. Being a nature and music enthusiast, he loves to share and help people become better version of themselves.
Magnus Drechsler
Magnus Drechsler
Magnus is an experienced IB teacher and examiner with a demonstrated history of leadership in IB and British contexts, as well as extensive experience in the IB MYP, DP and CP. He is passionate about curriculum development, interdisciplinary, and inquiry-based learning. Magnus is an innovative educator, with a proven track record of high engagement and high achievement of students using a variety of media and strategies to facilitate differentiated learning tasks and ensure that each learner makes continued progress. Magnus invests in strong professional development with a Master’s Degree focused in International Educational Leadership and Change from the Education University of Hong Kong, IB advanced leadership certificate and other continuous professional development committments.
Asnaha farheen
Asnaha farheen
Asnaha started her career more than 13 years back as a PYP educator. She currently works as Head of Primary and PYP Coordinator and I also an IBEN Program Leader. With this long tenure in the IB Primary Years Program, she participated dynamically in the Candidacy, Authorization and Evaluation process of many schools as a leader. She has supervised MYP personal project and also conducted PD sessions on “differentiated teaching and learning instructions” for the teachers of elite schools.
Equipped with a major in Chemistry, she was drawn towards international methodology and further honed her teaching skills through various IB PYP Workshops like Making the PYP Happen, Written Curriculum, Assessment in PYP and The role of the Coordinator. Asnaha believes in lifelong learning and has an inclination towards writing for pleasure, which enabled her to participate with wider IB community with two articles picked for publishing in Sharing PYP Blog – an official International Baccalaureate Blog. Her latest podcast – IB Matters — was recorded in Minnesota and shared her views about the significance of building a culture of collaboration in IB PYP Schools. Her article in the School News Magazine shared unique features of the IB Primary Years Program. She also loves to infuse technology with pedagogical approaches as an Edpuzzle Coach, Nearpod Certified Educator, Floop Ambassador, Seesaw Pioneer, Wakelet Community Leader, and Certified Innovation Microsoft Educator.
abhimanyu Das Gupta
abhimanyu Das Gupta
Abhimanyu Das Gupta, who is currently the PYP Coordinator at the Aga Khan Academy, Hyderabad, has been an educator since 1999, and has been working with IB programmes since 2004. He has worked at reputed international schools in India, in a range of roles, from being a Home Room Teacher, a Grade Level Coordinator, and a PYP Coordinator. He has been an IBEN member since 2011 and an Online Workshop Leader since 2013, and has recently completed the Certificate in School Management and Leadership from the Harvard University, Graduate School of Education. He has been a regular at SAIBSA conferences, hand-holding and training newcomers to the IB world by sharing his thoughts and skills. Besides education, he is passionate about nature and technology. This unique balance helps him enrich his core approaches to value-based education. As an outcome of this inner search, he was awarded the MIE Expert badge from Microsoft and selected as a Climate Action Project Facilitator (2021). He is currently pursuing certification with the ISTE and he continues to learn from his peers who are spread across the world, through his active networking on social media platforms like Twitter and Linkedin.
Tannu Jain
Tannu Jain
Tannu is a mother, a learner, a communicator, an inquirer, a risk-taker, a collaborator and a contributor. She believes that magic happens outside the comfort zone, which is why we need to keep experimenting and evolving.
By profession, Tannu has been a certified IB educator since 2012, having taught across all age groups. Currently, Tannu is the PYP 5 homeroom facilitator at The Indian Public School in Erode, India. Apart from being a homeroom teacher, she has facilitated SAIBSA conference sessions on the topic of "Inquiry and Implementing Agency." Recently, she moderated a session on the PYP Exhibition for South India and Sri Lanka Network - Focus Meet 2022. She has participated in and provided many Master Classes and professional development sessions for her colleagues within Erode campus and on other campuses belonging to her network.
Craig Kemp
Craig Kemp
Craig is the Co-Founder of EduSpark - a NEW, revolutionary Education Professional Learning Platform. Using his years of experience as an educator, leader and consultant, he has partnered with a powerhouse of educators and leaders from all over the world to bring you a learning experience like you have never seen before! It is truly professional learning redefined.
Craig is a passionate educator with 15+ years of experience teaching, leading and now consulting in public and private schools, as well as with EdTech Companies all over the world. Craig is a global speaker, workshop host and consultant (www.igniteedtech.com); a digital learning transformation leader whose work is highly sought over by schools, institutions and EdTech companies wanting to scale and grow. Craig currently works with multiple EdTech companies, helping them build, grow, scale and sustain their development in APAC.
Yuri Kim-Morris
Yuri Kim-Morris
Yuri is a passionate teacher, IB educator and transformational life coach. She has been teaching MYP and DP Korean LL and Chinese LA in international schools in China, Vietnam and Malaysia over the last 20 years. At the same time, she has held middle management roles as Head of Department and G11-12 Grade Level Coordinator. She is also DP Mandarin Ab Initio examiner.
With a background in secondary education as an IB educator, teacher and leader, Yuri values individual relationships at work, at home and in the community. She has started a new journey as a transformational life coach to integrate her professional experiences to support others. She believes that we as educators can establish partnerships with our students and the community that transform and create pathways towards our unique journey. At the same time, we can discover our inner voice and maximise our potential through self-awareness, encouragement and mutual agreement on meaningful goals. Yuri is inspired to support others to establish a growth mindset and embrace diversity.
Jason McBride
Jason McBride
Jason is an experienced international Head of School who is proud to lead IGBIS having previously led schools in Thailand, Canada and the UAE (both Dubai and Abu Dhabi). Having spent nearly all of his 20-plus years in education in CIS accredited, IB continuum programs, Jason believes that schools exist for two main reasons: to raise great human beings who can help make the world a more peaceful and sustainable place, and to build the learning and academic skills needed to pursue their own chosen path. Having worked in a variety of day and boarding schools, nonprofit and for-profit models, Jason strives to keep students—especially their wellbeing—at the center of the decision-making process.
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Jason received undergraduate degrees from McMaster University (B. Kin) and Queen’s University (B. Ed), before pursuing his Master’s degree in Leadership with Michigan State University and completing his Doctoral coursework at the University of Calgary (all but dissertation). Jason is a former TEDx speaker who loves living abroad with his wife and two daughters.
Yuni Santosa
Yuni Santosa
Yuni Santosa has been a PYP educator since 2005. She has worked at PYP schools in Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Norway and Germany and has taught kindergarten all the way up to grade 4.
Yuni is an IB Online Facilitator and has led PYP online workshops since 2015 and in addition to that, she is also a part of the IB Educator Network.
She is an experienced facilitator with a demonstrated history of working in education. She enjoys facilitating the IB Online workshops which provide the opportunity to connect with people and develop a learning community. She has a strong media and communication professional with a Master of Education (M.Ed.) focused on Educational management from Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH).
As part of her contribution to the professional learning community she shares her practice and insights in her highly acclaimed blog.
Fatima Shaikh
Fatima Shaikh
Fatima is a Research and Professional Development Leader at Fazlani L’Academie Globale. For the past 9 years, she has immensely enjoyed being a part of the PYP Learning Community and living different roles as a researcher, a documenter, a facilitator, an explorer, a presenter and above all, as a lifelong learner. She thinks kindness and compassion are her teaching superpowers and believes in igniting young minds to make a difference in their own small way and supporting all learners in being better individuals. Love, laughter and light are her secrets to happy learning spaces.
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